Owen DeLong wrote:
No... The negligent ISPs end up with all the abusing customers and have a hard time getting transit themselves. Eventually, you end up with two internets... One run by and for the abusers and negligent, one for everyone else. I have no problem with that.
There should be a twelve-step program for people like me who can't stay out of a discussion....
I think we are already on our way to a multiple-Internet world, with
the CB-radio model of everybody shouting about all manner of stuff
ranging from very useful to utter sewage (uttered sewage?), and the vpn model (note lowercase attempt at a generalizing term) of encrypted
tunnels, firewall rules, DNSBLs, challenged response, SPF, et alia.
Implicit in the latter is a prior negotiation and rules-of-contact setting, meaning no contact via the Internet by parties unknown.
I wonder if a 500 kc-like "calling" channel with very tight and enforced rules will emerge somehow. -- Requiescas in pace o email
Ex turpi causa non oritur actio
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